Posted: 4/14/2005 9:45:01 AM EDT
| My friend wants to make a website for free, what is the best place to make one for free? |
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So he will need: * to make the web page * a place to put the web page (somebody to host it) To make the web page, if he's not paying somebody to do it, he can do it himself. WebMonkey.com is a great source for doing it by hand. It can be done with a simple text editor such as Notepad. But there are software titles that make it much simpler such as Dreamweaver (pricey, but good), or Front Page if he has Microsoft Office. Downloading the Mozilla browser is a free option as it has a web/html editor that also very easy to use. Each of the titles mentioned here work like a word processor...type it in...highlight something, change the color of it, etc. What you see on the screen is basically how it will look. It will generate the needed HTML. Microsoft Word and Excel also have a "save as" feature to save to HTML code, but they generally create too much code, so I wouldn't recommend them. The file is saved to his own computer (as HTM or HTML extension), and he can even see his "web page" and test it right on his own computer. But nobody else on the internet can see it yet, so the file (or files) have to be uploaded to a place that will host the files. Free host We used to have a bunch of free hosts, but they've mostly disappeared. Many hosts cost money. Less money these days, but still cost. There's a few free hosts around, Googling for "free host" will bring up many hits for it. A few of them such as the one mentioned above even have some built in web-page building tools to make it easy. Many free web hosts also place an ad on the page or give the visitors a pop-up ad. That's how they get their money. |
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